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That is not what Biden said. He said we will be down to 50,000 non combat role troops THIS year and they will be completely GONE by December of 2011. To quote "by the end of next year we will not have ANY troops there".
Kev, you couldn't believe there will not be American military, not one, left in Iraq even by the end of 2011?
It is quite possible that Biden is correct. I think we should remove all military people form a great many places(ie Japan, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, ....etc.). We certainly waste a lot of money keeping them there. The original reasons for them, have long past. Now the only reasons are economic, not our economics, but those Countries where they are posted.
Iraq wont be any different than Okinawa, Germany, Korea, etc., etc...we will still have a U.S. military presence there, it may be retired military guys making over a hundred grand a year for Blackwater, but we will still have a military presence and lots of "assets" in the region.
To hear Joe Biden say how proud he was to swear in 200 soldiers who traded time as a mercenary/soldier in a U.S. uniform for citizenship, in Saddam's palace, is really great, UNLESS you are from Iraq and see your old dictator's palace used to create new American's who were willing to shoot and kill Iraqi's to become citizens.
No matter how much of an ignorant, flag waving, FOX watching redneck someone might be, I bet you not a single one of them would look on proudly at a signing in ceremony for some other nations citizens taking place at Camp David, or Arlington, or some other important location that was taken, thru force, by another nations military.
Americans (and their assorted mercenary shadows like Blackwater) are the occupiers, the aggressors, the reasons that up to a million Iraqi's are dead. Thats fact. And it must enrage your ordinary Iraqi, who has suffered first under Saddam, then under George W. Bush and Dick Cheney even worse.
If you want a rule to go by that is about 95% accurate, Never believe anything a Democrat says!!!!
Really? How about a rule that says don't believe anything a Repub or Dem says 95% of the time. A politician is a politician, right?
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